zondag 23 februari 2014

I won a wonderful stack of fat quarters in a giveaway in april last year: Carnaby Street by Pat Bravo for Art Gallery Fabrics.
I decided to use it to make a quilt of hexagons, using the "hex n ruler" (designed by Jaybird). I cut the fat quarters to strips, sewed the strips in pairs and cut into triangles using the ruler. I did buy a little bit of additional Carnaby Street fabric for binding and the half triangles on either side and used a pink fabric with little white flowers for the back.
Thinking of a way to quilt it took me a while. I decided to use a standard 1/4"line, enhancing the hexagon shapes. It turned out nice, I think...

Today was a nice day for photographs and I have been wanting to photograph a this spot ever since I discovered it (only two streets from my house...).

Thank you Pat Bravo for this wonderful gift and this beautiful fabric!

A facebook-challenge (post a picture of an artwork by an artist assigned to you) helped me discover this baby-quilt made by Sonia Delaunay. I love it! I knew some of her work, but not this. Look at the bright colors and shapes.

“About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings.” – Sonia Delaunay

I got inspired and made another quilt-as-you-go pillow. Only solids this time. It does not even come close to what Sona Delaunay accomplished in her quilt, but I still like it...

zaterdag 4 januari 2014

It turns out I need holidays to be able to finish some projects... Hope this new year will bring me some time to do more, because it is so satisfying to sit behind the sewingmachine in my attic.

I managed to finish two pillows in the "quilt-as-you-go"-technique I discovered this fall. I love it, but it does take time.
First result:

The fabrics were in my stash. The stripes were originally a table runner, the purple fabric was left over from a dress I made. On the back is mostly purple with a little pink. The picture is a bit blurred, but I love the little deer I put in the corner, so forgive me for that. (I already gave the pillow to my sister. Fortunately she loved it!) The deer are all echino-fabrics.

I finished another one for myself, but haven't photographed it yet. It's mostly GREEN.